Nguyen Chi Thanh

Nguyen Chi Thanh (1 January 1914-7 July 1967) was a North Vietnamese PAVN General during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Nguyen Chi Thanh was born in Quang Dien, Thua Thien Province, French Indochina in 1914 to a family of peasants, and he joined the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s. He spent most of World War II in a French prison for his revolutionary activities, but he became a member of the Indochinese Communist Party after his release, became a member of the Politburo in 1951, and rose to the rank of General in the Viet Minh before his rank carried over to the new North Vietnamese PAVN. From 1965 to 1967, he was the leading strategist of communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and he died of a heart attack in Hanoi in 1967 while reporting to Ho Chi Minh on the situation in the south.